| 词条 | King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid (painting) | ||
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| image_file=Edward Burne-Jones - King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid - Google Art Project.jpg | image_size=300px | title=King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid | artist=Edward Burne-Jones | year=1884 | medium=Oil on panel | height_metric=293.4 | width_metric=135.9 | metric_unit=cm | imperial_unit=in | city=London | museum=Tate Britain }}King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid is an 1884 painting by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones. The painting illustrates the story of 'The King and the Beggar-maid", which tells the legend of the prince Cophetua who fell in love at first sight with the beggar Penelophon. The tale was familiar to Burne-Jones through an Elizabethan ballad published in Bishop Thomas Percy's 1765 Reliques of Ancient English Poetry and the sixteen-line poem The Beggar Maid by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.[1][2] Burne-Jones first attempted the story in an oil painting of 1861–62 (now in the Tate Gallery, London).[1] He was working out a new composition around 1874[2] or 1875,[1] and began the painting in earnest in 1881.[2] He worked on it through the winter of 1883–84, declaring it finished in April 1884. The composition is influenced by Andrea Mantegna's Madonna della Vittoria (1496–96).[1][2] Several studies for the final work survive. A small gouache (bodycolour) of c. 1883 (now in the collection of Andrew Lloyd Webber) shows the king and the beggar maid much closer together, and a full-scale cartoon in bodycolour and coloured chalks of the same year (now in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery) features an entirely different approach to lighting the figures.[1] {{external media | width = 210px | align = right | headerimage= | video1 =Smarthistory – King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid[3]}}King Cophetua was exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1884 and became Burne-Jones's greatest success of the 1880s for its technical execution and its themes of power and wealth overborne by beauty and simplicity. It was heralded as the "picture of the year" by The Art Journal and "not only the finest work Mr Burne-Jones has ever painted, but one of the finest pictures ever painted by an Englishman" by The Times.[2] The painting was exhibited in France in 1889, where its popularity earned Burne-Jones the Legion of Honour and began a vogue for his work.[1] The artist's wife Georgiana Burne-Jones felt "this picture contained more of Edward's own qualities than any other he did."[4]The painting was purchased by the Earl of Wharncliffe (d. 1899) and acquired by public subscription through the Burne-Jones Memorial Fund from his executors in 1900. It is now in Tate Britain.[1][2] The full-scale cartoon was acquired for Birmingham in 1947. StudiesNotes1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 Wildman (1998), pp. 252–254 2. ^1 2 3 4 5 Wood (1997), pp. 100–102 3. ^{{cite web | title =King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid | work = | publisher =Smarthistory at Khan Academy | date = | url =http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/King-Cophetua-and-the-Beggar-Maid.html | accessdate =29 December 2012 }} 4. ^Quoted in Wildman (1998), p. 255 References
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